Cabinet Nominees Have Unique Qualifications

Is the concern about President-elect Donald Trump's proposed Cabinet merited? Why would men and women capable of warming themselves with a blanket of dollar bills give up the comforts of wealth to serve the people, to take government jobs at menial (to them) salaries? Skeptics and doubters will say "to salve their egos."

But what about patriotism and alarm at the government's inability to balance a budget and at our declining global status? What about their concern for a national debt of nearly $20 trillion, not to mention unfunded government obligations for Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements?

What about their insight into crippling regulations and taxes that prevent businesses from prospering and generating jobs, all of which make businesses consider moving to other countries?

Is it wrong to ask extraordinarily successful people to convert political dogma into astute business decisions? It should be difficult to question the goals and loyalty of people who move from the private sector to the publc sector out of concern and patriotism.

Yet, media and random pundits pander to the political status quo, which has left our country bogged down in incessant bickering and can-kicking. Accomplished people are about to turn our economy and our government into a force to be reckoned with, economically, diplomatically and, if needed, militarily.